Hall of Fame
Rains
Center
Client: Pomona Pitzer College
Designed with collaboration from: Advent
The Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens are an incredibly unique team in the SCIAC. While they maintain a core value that they are #OneTeam, the two colleges are explicitly different. With a program dedicated to being a student before a student athlete, they have also created a home for the community in their athletic facility, the Rains Center. It is essential that the Rains Center facilitates the complex community that is the Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens. The spirit and pride of the Sagehens is not only sustained by its current students but the history and alumni of both schools. The program provides an intrinsic experience into the southern California atmosphere and the prestigious honor of being a Sagehen.
My Part
- Sketching
- 3D Modeling
- Creative Strategy
Intial Concept Render
Unifying A Shared Home
Challenges
Creating a space that reinforces the #OneTeam mantra between Pomona and Pitzer through pockets for conversation and lounging throughout Rains Center.
Fostering a community for students, student athletes, alumni and parents in a cohesive space.
Intentionally designing spaces that modernize the Rains Center while encapsulating the history that Pomona-Pitzer is sustained by.
The Process
Conduct purposeful interviews to ensure an understanding of each college and their compounding relationship.
Intentionally designing spaces that promote the gathering of the Pomona and Pitzer community.
Profound understanding the rifts in the current Rains Center to facilitate an environment that delivers every valued aspect of the Pomona-Pitzer mission.
Solution
A first-class facility that allows for each college to be represented on its own, but knits their two stories together to house a completely unique program.
Molding a community building environment for the vast and diverse Sagehen population through the Rains Center.
A space that overachieves a holistic view of wellness to provide for student athletes that dedicate themselves to physical wellbeing and competitive athletics.
